quick network engineering review question

[Jason Munro]

On 3:51:42 pm 06/01/05 David Nicol <davidnicol at gmail.com> wrote:
> I want to sniff all traffic on the upstream link at my installation.
> I have a wire that comes into my cisco router from the CSU/DSU.  The
> question is, is this wire a normal ethernet wire, so that I could
> plug it into a hub and plug the hub into the Cisco, that is, put a
> hub in line with it, or is it something else?

My bet is that you could stuff a hub between the two but I have never
tried. Our arrangement is like so running from the CSU all the way to the
LAN:

CSU/DSU
Cisco router
Hub
Cisco PIX - switched DMZ 
hub
Linux gateway box
switched LAN

HTH

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